It is the peculiar faculty of fools, to dis cern the faults of others at the same time that they forget their own. Cicero. ADVANCED BY FORTUNE. Though thou shouldst bray a fool in a No man should so act as to take advan-mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will tage of another's folly. Cicero. not his foolishness depart from him. BRAIN LESS. Fops take a world of pains To prove that bodies can exist sans brains; Because they've heads dare fancy they can CHARACTER of a. A fop, who admires his person in a glass, soon enters into a resolution of making his fortune by it, not questioning but every woman that falls in his way will do him as much justice as himself. Hughes. Knows what he knows as if he knew it not, What he remembers, seems to have forgot. Cowper. DESCRIPTION of a. So gentle, yet so brisk, so wondrous sweet, In forin so delicate, so soft his skin, Put him in coats, and he's a very miss. MUTUAL. The kindest, and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something every day they live To pity and perhaps forgive. Cowper. NECESSITY OF. Use every man after his deserts, and who shall 'scape whipping. Shakespeare. TOWARDS OTHERS. If thou wouldst be borne with bear with others. Fuller. It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes, and to excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain before his stains, and to display his perfections; to bury his weaknesses in silence, but to proclaim his virtues upon the house-top. South. WISDOM OF. Every thing has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your brother do you an injury, do not take it by the hot hard handle, by representing to yourself all the aggravating circumstances of the fact; but look rather on the soft side, and extenuate it as much as is possible, by considering the nearness of the relation, and the long friendship and familiarity between you-obligations to kindness which a single provocation ought not to dissolve. And thus you will take the accident by its manageable handle. Epictetus. FORCE. INEFFECTIVENESS OF. Who overcomes by force, Hath overcome but half his foe. Milton FOREBODING. Ibid. Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go. Thomas Tusser. HAPPINESS OF. Happy are those, That knowing, in their birth, they are sub. ject to Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat. let him have thy cloak also. Matt. v, 39. Uncertain changes, are still prepared and arm'd For either fortune; a rare principle Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state, HEAVEN, TO BE SOUGHT FROM. INJURED, BELONGS TO THE. Shakespeare. Shakespeare. There is a strength Deep-bedded in our hearts, of which we reck But little, till the shafts of heaven have Its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent Lord Herbert ARMOR OF. Mrs. Hemans. Who fights With passions and o'ercomes, that man is arm'd With the best virtue-passive fortitude. GREATNESS of. The greatest man is he who chooses the right with invincible resolution; who resists the sorest temptations from within and without; who is calmest in storms, and whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is the most unfaltering. Channing. NOBLENESS of. Brave spirits are a balsam to themselves; SUPPORT IN SORROW. Cartwright. Gird your hearts with silent fortitude Suffering yet hoping all things. TRUE. Whatever fortune nas raised to an height, she has raised only that it may fall. Seneca. CHANCES AND CHANGES OF. There is nothing that keeps longer than a Mrs. Hemans. And when they least expect it turns the dice. Do thy great worst, my friends and I have arms, A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has Though not against thy strokes against thy to sustain. CAPRICES OF. Ovid. Who thinks that fortune cannot change her mind, Prepares a dreadful jest for all mankind. Pope. Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. Fortune made up of toys and impudence, But fond of business insolently dares fairs. TRIFLING Joys of. Alas! the joys that fortune brings What real good does an addition to a for tune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetite, And those who prize the paltry things, then precedence might be attended with More trifling still than they. Loss of. real amusement. Goldsmith. |